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millsy888 · 23 Oct 2009 at 23:51

thats a nice upgrade!! Got any games ready?

adwol48 · 23 Oct 2009 at 23:54

that 5850 is gonna blow your mind compared to what you did have my current system started off with a HD3650 and i was impressed by that when i switched from my old laptop which had an ati 200m gpu. then went to a 4870X2 and that was an even bigger leap i think because being able to play any game at max settings and still getting a minimum of 60fps is just insane.

PIJ123 · 24 Oct 2009 at 00:04

Guess where Iam typing this from !!!!! :-)

Might just try medival war 2 quickly b4 i go to bed!

PIJ123 · 24 Oct 2009 at 00:04

oh and any suggestions what programmes i need to run tomz... i.e check temps.. prime ect...

millsy888 · 24 Oct 2009 at 00:05

PIJ123 said:
Guess where Iam typing this from !!!!!

Might just try medival war 2 quickly b4 i go to bed!

Nice

I knew you wouldnt be able to resist a quick game

PIJ123 · 24 Oct 2009 at 00:06

well, ill try and the be back tomz... see you then and thanks millsy and bfg .. you guys are great.

Have a nice evening.

adwol48 · 24 Oct 2009 at 00:27

okay to get your ram to work at 1600 if it already isnt here is what you do enter the bios by pressing delete and move over to the cell menu option

next you'll need to scroll down until you come to the first set of ram options, should look like this.

as you can see it defaults to auto usually so my ram originally only worked at 1066mhz but when you've paid extra for the 1600 you wanna be able to use it. okay now if you press enter on the fsb ram ratio auto option and change that to 1:4 you'll be able to get 1600 like below.

hope this helps make a bit of difference bios's can be a scary and weird place sometimes

jbs · 24 Oct 2009 at 01:01

Gratz on getting the rig up and going - very nice build there - hope you enjoy it!

I use Core Temp and CPU-Z mainly to monitor the hardware stats and temps.

baroniuk · 24 Oct 2009 at 04:03

Nice build as above use core temp, gpu-z and cpu-z and run furmarks to test the graphics.

UltimateBadger · 24 Oct 2009 at 08:26

Nice build - very similar components to what I am looking at for my next build. Please post up some benchies when you have the time :-)

PIJ123 · 24 Oct 2009 at 13:04

adwol48 said:
okay to get your ram to work at 1600 if it already isnt here is what you do enter the bios by pressing delete and move over to the cell menu option

next you'll need to scroll down until you come to the first set of ram options, should look like this.

as you can see it defaults to auto usually so my ram originally only worked at 1066mhz but when you've paid extra for the 1600 you wanna be able to use it. okay now if you press enter on the fsb ram ratio auto option and change that to 1:4 you'll be able to get 1600 like below.

hope this helps make a bit of difference bios's can be a scary and weird place sometimes

Thanks man - just done this and hope now all ok.. i want to tweak my memory timings ... not sure how to do this... any ideas at all?

PIJ123 · 24 Oct 2009 at 13:06

baroniuk said:
Nice build as above use core temp, gpu-z and cpu-z and run furmarks to test the graphics.

Just used core temp and its running at 25-27 while idling.. is this ok??..

Auraomega · 24 Oct 2009 at 13:28

My CPU (Q6600) idles at at least 10c above that, so I see no issues at all

PIJ123 · 24 Oct 2009 at 14:05

right been on a website on how to over clock..

I have adjusted memory so it runs at 1600.. but now need help with ... :-)

Disabling c1e in BIOS - cant find that!
Disabling smart cpu fan control - cant find that!
I need to set timing for my ram... any ideas..

Thanks all..

PJ